Re: Are these Perl Textbooks Good?

buy the first, print your copy of ModernPerl and take a look to PerlCookbook: it is very aged but was a wonderful panorama for me. I did'nt liked very much Intermediate Perl but generally speaking all O'Reilly Perl books are good quality ones.

About version differences, Perl is very strong in backward compatibilty, so you'll never learn something no more valid. A perldelta is available for all versions: and yes was a big improvement from 5.14 to 5.24 but books are still fully valid.

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

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Re^2: Are these Perl Textbooks Good? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 23, 2016 at 20:38 UTC
I second this. I learn much better by example than straightforward lecturing. The Perl Cookbook is nothing but examples; ISBN 9780596003135. Most of the code is dated but all of it is instructive and if you understand it, it’s easy to make the leap to the modules and practices that have replaced much of it. Replacements that were not out of necessity but usually, in my view, toward elegance, terseness, reusability, and clarity.	[reply]

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Re^2: Are these Perl Textbooks Good?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 23, 2016 at 20:38 UTC

I second this. I learn much better by example than straightforward lecturing. The Perl Cookbook is nothing but examples; ISBN 9780596003135. Most of the code is dated but all of it is instructive and if you understand it, it’s easy to make the leap to the modules and practices that have replaced much of it. Replacements that were not out of necessity but usually, in my view, toward elegance, terseness, reusability, and clarity.

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